“I fear that all we have done is wake a sleeping giant. » -Yamamoto Isoroku. This is the quote Yamamoto gave after the successful attack on Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto is one of the best naval officers in history. If you know him, you'll probably recognize him for bringing us to war. But I bet what you didn't know is that that's exactly what he didn't want to do... From Pearl Harbor News by Jacqueline Laks Gorman Isoroku Yamamoto was born on April 4, 1884 in Nagaoka in Japan (43). According to “Yamamoto Isoroku” by Thomas Hughes His birth name was Isoroku Tankano. Isoroku, his first name, signified his father's age at birth, which was 56 (Thomas Hughes). He was the 6th child of Tankano (Thomas Hughes). He changed his last name because he was adopted by the Yamamoto (Thomas Hughes) family. Both his parents died and that's why he was adopted (Thomas Hughes). No one knew it yet, but he would become a war mastermind as a naval commander and lead the United States into the war! Isoroku was a very intelligent man. According to the book Pearl Harbor by Ernest Arroyo, he graduated from Japan...